Friday Holiday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Humpty Dumpty"

 An Easter-themed combination of a pair of classic nursery rhymes...

... courtesy of legendary writer/artist Walt (Pogo) Kelly...who really knew how to freshen up an old concept!

This never-reprinted short from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose (1948) expands on the nursery rhyme with a new adventure of the accident-prone ovum!

Walt Kelly also used Humpty in other Mother Goose comic stories.

Oddly, the cover, also by Walt Kelly, features a radically-different version of Humpty...

Weird, eh?

Friday Holiday Fun / Easter Reading Room TICK-TOCK TALES "Koko and Kola Meet the Red Easter Bunny!"

Walt (Pogo) Kelly didn't have a monopoly on Easter-themed stories...

...in fact, Magazine Entertainment's Tick Tock Tales #4 (1946) presented both a cover and several stories (including this one) featuring it's ongoing characters teamed-up with the Easter Bunny!

The artwork is by Leon Jason Comic Art Studios who supplied funny-animal art to numerous publishers including Magazine Entertainment, Spotlight Publishing, Novelty Press and EC Comics (before they did horror) during the 1940s and '50s.

Friday Fun "Peace On Earth, Good Will Towards Men (with Law and Order)"

This Week We're Doing Something Different...

...Write Your Own Caption for this Yuletide Homicide!

Friday Holiday Fun GREMLINS Conclusion

Forty Years Ago...

...(was it really that long?) this insanely-cute (especially her) young couple fought for their lives on Christmas Eve against an invasion of weird creatures!

Witness now the fearsome finale...

Gizmo Will Return in Gremlins 2: the New Breed
...sadly, there wasn't a comic book/graphic novel adaptatation of it!

Reading the graphic novel, you'll note dialogue and scenes that are different from the movie itself, indicating, due to time constraints, the comic creatives were working from an earlier draft of the script.

Ony thing that doesn't appear in the GN is Kate's explanation as to why she hates Christmas...

...although I suspect it was left out due to a limited page count in the comic, since it was in the movie script from the beginning.

As to other changes and scenes left out of the final version...

Hope you enjoyed our multi-part presentation of the graphic novel that few people even knew existed!

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Billy Peltzer's Dad Brought Him a Present...

...which had these extremely-specific rules, which have to be followed to the letter!

But will Billy manage to do so?

Meanwhile, mundane, everyday life goes on...

To Be Continued Wednesday at

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Friday Holiday Fun GREMLINS Part 1

Meet Randall "Rand" Peltzer, "inventor"...

...trying to find a unique gift for his son!

But he has no idea how unique it will be!

To Be Continued Sunday at

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Written by Roger McKenzie and illustrated by Adrian Gonzales, Golden Book's Gremlins (1984) one-shot comic movie adaptation was a 52-page magazine with very limited distribution in America.

Apparently, it's better-known overseas than here in the USA!

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